The Fort Totten mercury pollution risk assessment: A case history

Goldblum, David; Rak, Andrew; Ponnapalli, Mona D.; Clayton, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2005.11.047

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“…This study included several exposed population groups and the pathways associated with the highest intake in this study were dermal contact with the contaminated sediments and ingestion of contaminated biota. Similar results were obtained in another study, with recreational beach activities, but where swimming was considered unlikely [4]. In this deterministic assessment, fish consumption and dermal contact were the major exposure routes.…”

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Exposure to contaminated sediments during recreational activities at a public bathing place

Filipsson¹,

Lindström²,

Peltola³

et al. 2009

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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“…Some children were observed to bath for several hours. These observations, and literature data [4,18,19], were used to support an estimated RME of 4 h/day for children and 2 h/day for adults. The exposure frequencies were estimated from the questionnaires and an assumed bathing season of 8 weeks as best estimate and 10 weeks as RME.…”

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Exposure to contaminated sediments during recreational activities at a public bathing place

Filipsson¹,

Lindström²,

Peltola³

et al. 2009

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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“…Anthropogenic Hg emissions have been increasing above background levels in water and air since the beginning of the industrial period (2), and it has been estimated that thousands of tons are introduced into the atmosphere every year by both emission and reemission (3). Mercury in any form attacks the central nervous system, causing mental and motor dysfunction such as paralysis, blindness, and chromosome breakage (4,5).…”

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Equilibrium Studies in Adsorption of Hg(II) from Aqueous Solutions using Biocompatible Polymeric Polypyrrole-Chitosan Nanocomposite

Salahi

Parvini

Ghorbani

2014

Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

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This article deals with the adsorption of Hg(II) ions from aqueous solution on biocompatible polymeric polypyrrole-chitosan (PPy/CTN) nanocomposite. The Hg(II) uptake of PPy/CTN was quantitatively evaluated using sorption isotherms. In order to describe the isotherm mathematically, the experimental data of the removal equilibrium were correlated by either the Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin equations. Results indicated that the Langmuir model gave a better fit to the experimental data than the other two equations. The adsorption capacity (q max ) of PPy/CTN for Hg(II) ions in terms of monolayer adsorption was 40 mg/g.

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“…Therefore, to assess the risk of mercury, total mercury in fish tissues was assumed to be 100 % MeHg. Mercury was also selected as a noncancerous substance (Kojadinovic et al 2006;Goldblum et al 2006).…”

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Mercury concentrations and health risk assessment for two fish species, Barbus grypus and Barbus luteus, from the Maroon River, Khuzestan Province, Iran

Asefi

Zamani‐Ahmadmahmoodi

2015

Environ Monit Assess

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The purposes of this study are to investigate the concentration of mercury in edible muscle tissues of two popular edible fish species: the Shirbot (Barbus grypus) and Hemri (Barbus luteus), from the Maroon River, Khuzestan Province, Iran, and to assess the risk of their toxicity on human health. We collected 20 samples of each species from the river, and after biometry and determination of their age and sex, concentration of total mercury (assumed to be about 100% methylmercury) was measured. For B. grypus, mercury averaged 0.16 ± 0.02 μg g(-1) wet weight, and for B. luteus, it averaged 0.08 ± 0.02 μg g(-1) wet weight. Although mercury has been reported to accumulate with age, length, and trophic level in many studies, we did not find a significant correlation among age, sex, length, and mercury content in either of these omnivorous species. Mercury levels (maximum 0.37 μg g(-1) wet weight) were below international standards. Consumption of these fish would not pose a serious health hazard to Iranian consumers at the average national consumption of 17.53 g day(-1). However, high-end consumers eating more than 250 g week(-1) and pregnant women should be attentive in choosing fish low in mercury, for example, B. luteus rather than B. grypus.

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The Fort Totten mercury pollution risk assessment: A case history

Cited by 29 publications

References 1 publication

Exposure to contaminated sediments during recreational activities at a public bathing place

Exposure to contaminated sediments during recreational activities at a public bathing place

Equilibrium Studies in Adsorption of Hg(II) from Aqueous Solutions using Biocompatible Polymeric Polypyrrole-Chitosan Nanocomposite

Mercury concentrations and health risk assessment for two fish species, Barbus grypus and Barbus luteus, from the Maroon River, Khuzestan Province, Iran

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